Hi Evan,

Have to pick you up on that one! I took over from you at Bungies, as your brother Theo said you were going off diving - in Cyprus, if my memory serves me correctly - and for a short while was resident with Tony McCarthy (forgotten about that till you jogged my memory) until he was replaced by Ron Simmonds. I played on Monday nights for a couple of years (I think) before going down to help run clubs on the south coast from 1964 onwards, when Scotsman Jack Whyte wrote to tell me Brighton was "wide open for folk music!", as he put it. Wonderful days! The audiences were so enthusiastic.

The first folk club I ever sang in was on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, run by American Sandy Paton, back in the '50s when I was at art school.

Talking about Ron Simmonds, I ran into him in Spain just last week. Hadn't seen him for over 40 years and he's just as cheeky as ever!